CamperCare24 March 2022
. Australia is all well and good if you are hankering to travel but why not combine two great pastimes and show your classic car a bit more of Godzone?. By Vaughan Wilson. The West Coast has had a challenging past. Gold and then coal drew in white settlers and it was also exploited for its nat...
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Editorial24 March 2022
Enthusiasts enable a peek into a more romantic past. By Nathalie Brown Photographs: Brian High. They’re a dedicated lot, these steam railway enthusiasts. More often than not, they’re blokes past retirement age who are happy to spend two days or so each week restoring late 19th- and early 20th...
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Motorcycle24 March 2022
WORDS & PHOTOS: RHYS JONES . Twenty-one years ago a reborn Triumph company launched a new and revised Bonneville. It was a modern motorcycle, but with a distinctive 1960s look. Now a reborn BSA company is launching a 2022 BSA Gold Star. Again, this will be a modern motorcycle with a look insp...
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24 March 2022
Lars Bojsen-Moller gives Aprilia’s hot middleweight RS660 a good thrashing at Hampton Downs. . By Jock McLauchlan. I’ll start with a disclaimer. I’m not a journalist and I don’t ride much on the road these days, I save it for the safety of the track. Ok, disclaimer over. So, I was havin...
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CamperCare23 March 2022
Shasta Airflyte 1961, 19-foot re-issue. Words + Photos Don Jessen. In 2015 Shasta Trailers (caravans in our lingo) celebrated 75 years of production, the company having been formed in 1941. Being one of the larger companies in the USA, they decided that they would re-issue a Shasta from earlier t...
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CamperCare23 March 2022
Allan Dick experiences winter and early spring in the Mackenzie Country. Story Allan Dick Photos Allan Dick and Helen Harrison. How was your winter? Let me tell you about mine. The idea was that we – Miss Google, assorted animals (three cats and Audrey the dog) and I – would spend four weeks...
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CamperCare23 March 2022
If you’ve enjoyed Ōpōtiki’s Dunes Trail, there’s good reason to return for more. Story + Photos Jim Robinson. Over the last 10 years, Ōpōtiki has become known as the northern gateway to the Motu Trails – with the Dunes Trail starting from the outskirts of town and heading east along the...
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Broker22 February 2022
CONTRIBUTING WRITER: Ian Nott (RS Consulting). It is some time since I penned an article for this publication but like the rest of us life at “RS Consulting” has continued through the pandemic with the usual issues posed by working from home while keeping abreast of the local and internationa...
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